Healing
Dina Gregory
We are pleased to introduce Dina Gregory to the Abode! Dina Gregory is a teacher, storyteller, community builder, and the creative heart behind La Befana’s Table, a space dedicated to fostering connection, belonging, and shared humanity through curious conversations & storytelling. Inspired by the legend of La Befana, Dina weaves together old-world wisdom and modern […]
Gayatri Hull
Gayatri Hull has been a practicing healer and a certified Raphaelite Work practitioner for many years. She is a representative and guide in the Inayati Order and a certified retreat guide and a Shefayat and healer in the Sufi Healing Order. She is also a certified leader of the Dances of Universal Peace and has […]
Aimée Brodeur Johnson
Aimée was initiated by Pir Vilayat in 1985 and has lived at the Abode since 1988. She is an ordained Cheraga and a conductor in the Healing Order. She retired a few years ago from 25 years as a teacher and director of Mountain Road School in New Lebanon, New York. Her work with Tara […]
Onaje Muid
Onaje Muid, a transformative, Sufi social worker/ activist has a thirty-year career which combined human services, human rights, and spirituality, especially for descendants of formerly enslaved Africans and indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere. He is the creator of the Saba Uhuru Saba Ujija Healing System and the SEEDS Garden Network. He has served as an […]
Fatima Hafiz-Muid, PhD
Dr. Hafiz’s has more than 35 years’ experience in the field of education. Her research interests focus on emotions in social spaces where issues of race, gender, class, ethnicity and nationality intersect. Fatima currently serves as an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College and Columbia University in teacher education and social work. Her pedagogical approach and […]
Pir Zia Inayat-Khan
Pir Zia, also known as Sarafil Bawal is the first son of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and Taj Inayat, born in 1971 in Novato, California. He grew up in California, New York, and New Mexico. Pir Vilayat made it clear to Zia at an early age that he wished him to continue his lineage. He prepared him by […]
Dr. Randy Weston
Randy Weston, born in Brooklyn, New York in 1926, didn't have to travel far to hear the early jazz giants that were to influence him. Though Weston cites Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Art Tatum, and of course, Duke Ellington as his other piano heroes, it was Monk who had the greatest impact. "He was […]